The program kicked off with a presentation by Nick Gilmore, CEO of IC3D Creative Edge Software, who illustrated how innovative technology was coming to the aid of the packaging industry. He traced the history of three-dimensional vision back 500 million years and highlighted its importance today...

Spread across an area of 188,000 sq ft, the Bangkok plant houses one coating machine and a slitter alongside other converting facilities. With space to install more machinery, the plant has the total capacity to produce 2,000 to 2,500 tons of coated material a month. The factory caters to label...

The Gallus presses are 8-color and 10-color; the Pantec and Prati machines have been customized, enabling the company to bring to market unique products at high production efficiency. ‘The Gallus Labelmaster, with its short set-up times and high level of automation, offers the finest print...

T4 is an all-in-one digital color label press with integrated finishing station that can print, laminate, cut and die-cut 4-color labels. The print engine can achieve a 1600 x 1600dpi resolution at a maximum speed of 60ft/min. A new formulation is claimed to reduce ink consumption by 50-70...

The new 20,000 sq ft factory doubles the Xeikon press user’s available manufacturing space and will enable it to improve productivity, both through equipment utilization and workforce output. Five Xeikon presses – four CX3 engines and a CX500 – have been orientated with the unwind units facing...

The project began back in 2016 with a major growth in label sales by Desmedt that highlighted a shortfall in production capacity on the company’s existing flexo and digital presses. According to general manager Henri Köhler: ‘We intended to buy one new 8-color UV flexo press and visited all of...

By chance, his first job after graduation was servicing barcode printers. ‘I was fortunate to witness the golden age of barcode label printing in China from 2002 to 2004. I started to have a preliminary understanding of the label industry and decided to start my own business.’ Jim Ji explains...

Private label (PL) brands are manufactured under a retailer’s own name. In contrast to heavily marketed ‘name’ – regional, national and international – brands, they are not supported by advertising or marketing, enabling retailers to gain a higher profit margin and attract consumers with lower...

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